Antonino La Vela

About

Since the early 1990s, my art work has involved the creation of conceptually based sociopolitical painting. In my work, I trying to put in evidence social/political issues.

My work also addresses roles/gender assignment; I need to put in evidence the fragility of human being by researching the realism and the future.

After a break of almost 10 years, started in 2001, in 2010 I decided to start over to exhibit my paintings and I identify myself into the Art Movement Thinkism.

Since 2010 I have participated in several international competitions and artistic performances

Location: Chieri, Torino, Italy
Website: http://www.antoninolavela.com

Work

EXHIBIT & PRIZES
• 2001 Royal Academy of Art - London - UK - Exhibit with Discovering Metropolitan Gay Life Painting

• 2010 Io Espongo Torino - Italy - Prize Participation with "Metropolitan Gay Life" Painting

• 2010 Premio Combat - Italy - Participation to the 2010 Prize with "Zoophile Love" Painting

• 2010 NYBE New York - US - Prize Participation with "Zoophile Love" Painting

• 2010 Made In Torino - Italy - Exhibition with the "Discovering Human Sexuality " Painting Collection

• 2011 Dance with Art Rome - Italy - Exhibition with the "Arabian Women" Painting at Spaziottagoni

• 2011 EmozionARTI Florence Italy Exhibition with the "Italian Women Painting" at "Galleria Civico69"

• 2011 Transgression London UK Prize Participation "Discovering Human Sexuality" Painting Collection

• 2011 Beijing Art Expo 2011 Beijing (CHINA) Personal Exhibit Painting Collection "Discovering Future"

• 2011 Biennale of Chianciano 2011 Personal Exhibition with 3 painting of collection Discovering Human Sexuality Painting. The Biennale Jury Mention for Honourable Artistic Merit

• 2012 Premio Città di Foglizzo 2012 Foglizzo (TO) Italy Prize Participation with "War Party" Painting. The Prize Jury Mention for Honourable Artistic Merit

• 2012 Premio Città di Fiuggi 2012 Fiuggi (FR) Italy Prize Participation with "Metropolis" Painting.

PUBLICATION

• 2010 Miami and Broward Palm Beach New Time The 1st of March 2010 the American Newspaper that inspire Zoophiles Love published an article about this Painting. The Biennale Jury avard for Honourable Mention for Artistic Merit

• 2010 - Article published by the Corriere di Chieri (local Italian newspaper) 05/03/2010 regarding the Painting Zoophiles Love.

• 2011 - Biennale of Chianciano of 2011 Catalogue Pubblication page 89 with the painting "Cybersex - Many possibilities"

• 2011 - Beijing Art Expo 2011 Catalogue Pubblication page 91 with the painting "Future Hell"

• 2012 - Premio Città di Foglizzo 2012 Catalogue Pubblication page 16 with the painting "War Party"

CRITICS

• 2010: Kaleidoscopic pictorial art; sometimes surreal and multi-chromatic, sometimes with alarming angles, empty from seeds, and fractals shuffles that recombine to compose many different forms and geometric, which attract the eye and thought to block the search for the meaning in a anti-intuitive pictorial composition. Complex and incomplete, like all attempts to frame the works of an artist within a few schema: Art eschews the schematics (F. Lucertini)
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Education

Marsala Art High School • 2 years course in Oil Painting 1985
Bologna Private School of Art • 1 year training in Oil Painting 1994
Bristol College • Diploma in Art and Design 2001